The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training and the Cambodian Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports on August 31 signed a cooperation agreement for this year.

Under the agreement that was inked in Hanoi, Vietnam will receive 130 Cambodian students for graduate and postgraduate courses, internship, research and short-term refresher courses on science, technology, Vietnamese language and other fields.

Vietnam is also willing to receive Cambodian students who wish to study in Vietnam with their own money or with funding from international organisations and the Cambodian government.

For its part, Cambodia will accept 10 Vietnamese students for study at its universities and 20 officials to learn Khmer language in two years.

The two countries will send their working teams to one another to review the cooperation and examine their students’ study outcomes.

The countries will support cooperation in scientific and educational research between Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City as well as between provinces sharing the border and encourage the exchange of educational materials, magazines and reviews./.